Reefer madness

I have considered the increase in teenage smoking and I believe the reason
is not due to advertising by the tobacco companies. Rather, the increase is
due to the dramatic increase in marijuana use among the nation's youth.
Cigarette smoking is a by-product of marijuana smoking, not the reverse.
Marijuana users invariably start smoking cigarettes after they begin
smoking marijuana.

The Clinton administration must assume full responsibility for the increase
in marijuana use among the young, and therefore the increase in cigarette
use. President Clinton totally ignored the drug problem for years while
many of his staff members could not obtain security clearances due to drug
use. Mr. Clinton himself gave moral support to marijuana use when he said
during an MTV interview that if he could do it over again he would inhale.

Michael Ward
Gakona, Alaska

Checked-by: Richard Lake